Quotes About Chance

Life is like a game of poker. Sometimes it bluffs you. Sometimes you're down when you give it all you got and sometimes you have a full house. It can be predictable or unpredictable. Depends on how you live it.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

What he did know was that the only way to get from nowhere to somewhere was to believe in yourself and take a chance.

There's so much beauty in this world that it's hard to begin. There are no words with which to express my gratitude at having been given this one chance to live - if not Live. Let other people frequent the nightclubs in their tight-ass skirts and Live. I'm just sitting here, vibrating in my apartment, at having been given this one chance to live.

In this book, all results from the flipping of coins result from the flipping of actual coins.

I love you, Billie. Give me the chance to make you happy. To show you who I really am – the man who can't live without you. The man who deserves your heart

You can get hurt at any time.

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.

The most important thing about the 'next time' is that there may not be a next time!